There are many reasons why I use LinkedIn. Other than me getting a job, which is obviously the first reason.
Other than that I think LinkedIn posts are really informative and uplifting. You come to know about the good happening around you. There was this poll once on LinkedIn which said which social platform do you go to, to get positive news? Most of the people said LinkedIn (including me). Also maybe because it was asked to people on LinkedIn so maybe that’s true for them, your instagram folks are not seen here (much).
Also people raise awareness about certain issues and share personal experiences to make a point. And most of the people support them! That is something I really admire.
That said, I haven’t really started posting anything frequently on LinkedIn yet, (not even the links to these blog posts) but I do like to be on the platform.
I remember I was very reluctant to join LinkedIn. I thought maybe it’s all about work and not so much fun. It is true though. But I like it. My passion brought me here. I can connect with so many people from positive psychology background and talk to them. Get to know eachother, talk about Positive Psychology. And also attend the webinars hosted by them.
Also I feel motivated and fired up to make new connections and seek out new opportunities after being on LinkedIn.
So if you are joining LinkedIn for the first time, welcome! Don’t forget to connect with me on LinkedIn, here is my id –
Just kidding!
Its a great platform and I hope you enjoy it there as well and I hope it proves beneficial for you.
P.S – I got my first job through LinkedIn! 🙂 Just saying.
P.P.S – After writing this I realised how muchhh I use LinkedIn. “Is LinkedIn the new Instagram for me?”
Its a multipurpose platform. Not just for searching jobs. For the freshers its for job hunt way for the professional its a big ocean. You can find everything that you can choose and opt. There are many fake ids too and spams. So choose the one you are finding it authentic and useful. Enjoy the bigger horizons of knowledge. Cheers.
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Hehe LinkedIn
Reminds me
Too Much of
Work it Was
Okay The First
22 Years Yet the
Last 33 Percent
Yes 11 Whole Years
Was A Frog Boil
Where The
Temperature
Gradually
Increases
For 11 Years
Until You Realize
You’re Boiling With
No Escape Stress
Is Cumulative And
Possible to Overlook
Until 99 Percent
Of The Damage
Is Done And All
You
Have
For
LinkedIn
Left Is 1 Percent
For Any Chance
Of Recovery As
For me That took
66 Months First
Clue
Was in 100 Degree F
WeatheR A Warm
Breeze Made
me Feel
Chilled in
July of Florida
Sweltering Summer
Little Did
i Realize My
Autonomic System
For Basic
Survival
Was Being
Destroyed
By Getting Lost
In My Head Solving
Problems Leaving my
Body
To Die
Alone
With No
Soul To Touch
My Really Smart
Head That was Dumber
Than
i Could imagine
Then What We Do
With Words Comprises
Less Than 5 Percent
Of What
Our
Whole
Mind And
Body Soul is
It Was A Hard Pill
To Swallow That 19
Years Of School 3
Degrees And 33
Years
Of
Work
Didn’t
Even
Teach
me How
To Stay Human
Keeping in Mind
That i Worked in
Morale, Welfare
And Recreation
For The
Government
And my 3 Degrees
Were in Psychology,
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary,
And Anthropology
The
Art
ParT
Was Still
Left Out of
HeART And
smART i had
No Idea i Was Still
Missing 60 Percent
At Least of my Soul
As Without
Art All That’s
Left of SMart
And HEart
Is ‘50 Shades
And Less than Grey’
Yep, Just S And
M And HE With No
Art in What I Didn’t
Realize Was Wandering
A Toxic Patriarchal
Desert
For 4 Decades
Until i Escaped into
A World of Poetry
Singing And
Dancing
Free With
Wings Fortunately
For Me Money Was
No Longer An Issue
When i Retired
Early
If it
Was Highly
Unlike i’d Be Here
Now Moral oF A STory
Vrunda
Always
Find A Way
Of Sanctity
To Get
Linked
Out
Of Our “Heads”
Without Dance i’d
Still Be Partially
Living
Dead
Everyone
Must Find What
Keeps A Balance😊🙌
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Too long a poem on LinkedIn, should be shared on LinkedIn!
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Here, Try This One on For Size, Vivek, Every Two Weeks, i write
A Free Verse Long Form Poem, Averaging 60,000 Words,
And 9.3 MiLLioN Words Whole For the Longest EPiC Long Form
Poem Ever Written in Free Verse (SonG oF mY SoUL) 5 Times Longer
Than ‘the Mahabharata’ That
Took Innumerable
Authors And
Centuries
To Bring to Print
And HAha, Being Financially
Independent, i have no Need for
‘Linked-in’ or Affirmation From Anyone
To Do What i Love to do Just For Fun; No
Different than 14,896 Miles of Public Dance NoW in 93
Months, Where my Common Experience At Close to 61
Years of Age, Yes Still Leg Pressing Up to 1520 Pounds,
More Than Elite Warrior Dudes At My Military Gym,
Is Folks Yelling Out their Car Windows, ‘Legend’
And Such as That; the Most Uncomfortable
Experience of All Was When Folks Bow
To me With their Hands Clasped
In Prayer ‘Mocking Worship’;
i am Just A Feather
In the Breeze;
Just Spiraling PHI’
Another Nautilus
Still Building A ‘Milky
Way’ Now For When my ‘Day
of Rest’ Now Comes i’ll Just Dance
Sing Freely Thank You For this Gift of Life Love
i Dam Sure Lived… The Proof Still Exists… Now…
Smiles my FRiEnD, Some of Us Don’t Need Credentials,
Even When We Stand Naked In Front of A World Now…
Today, is the Anniversary of my Father’s Death, May 22nd, 2014
And You Know What, He Would See No Value in Anything I’ve Done
in Dance or Song; All He Cared About Was Money And Was Shocked
That i Saved 6 Times More Than He Did in the Bank; Yet You See
i Never
Cared
About
Spending Money…
So It Just Grew Like Mold in the Bank…
Anyway, It Helped me Become Financially Independent at Age 47…
It’s Really Easy to Do As LonG As We Don’t Fall to ‘The Western Illusion’…
i am NOT A ‘Consumer’;
i Am A ‘Giver’; Some
Folks Enjoy
All that i Give;
Others None, Particularly,
Those Who See Little Value in Love or Original Art…
Not Unlike ‘Krishna/Shiva’; i Play, i Dance, i Sing, i Play in Meditative Flow
This is No Competition, This iS Only Play, Dance, And Sing BREaTHE LoVE;
Occasionally,
i Do ‘Kali’
As i am Only
Human And ‘Demon’ too…:)
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I am omverwhelmed by the no of words you use in your poetry!
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SMiles Vivek, Born on the Autism Spectrum, Not Able
to Speak Until 4, Additionally Born With Extreme
Sensitivity to All of the Environment; Both
Feelings and Senses As Part of that
Condition, Just About Everything
in My Life Overwhelmed
Me, Until 53 Years-Old as When
i was in my 40’s, i Still Had Difficulty
Coming Up With Just One Page of Anything
Other than Technical Lists Working For the Government;
Additionally, Part of that Condition was Being Very Uncomfortable
In my Body And Moving Through All Environments too Physically
As Such too; It All Started With One Word for the Poetry And One
Step for the Public Dancing That has come now to the 9.3 MiLLioN
Words And 14,906 Miles of Public Dance Tonight; yes More than Half
the Distance Around the Globe Doing Both Endeavors Again in
The Same Last 93 Months Ongoing; The Purpose
of this Is Not A Target Audience; it is the
All ‘Autotelic Meditation’ That
Writing in Flow And
Dancing in
Flow Brings;
Prana By Indian
Metaphor Or Tao
Or Satori or Chi or Samadhi
Or Kundalini Rising Again Just
Basically Autotelic Flow Per Secular
Description; Basically Opening Up Our Entire
Mind’s Potential Effortless in Ease; Yet Increasing
Complexity Tween Anxiety And Apathy Now; Same applies
to the Martial Arts i Do As i Spend my Life in Bliss this way;
The Journey, All Paths Are Eternal Now Heaven; This Reality
Within i experience Doing it, These Words Are Only Fumes
And This Is Not A Rare Experience as it is Reported All
Through History for those Who Do Achieve Autotelic
Flow; Not So Common To Stay in this State of Being
Almost Every Moment of the Day; Yet It’s True, Science
Shows It is Regenerative And a Real Fountain of Youth;
Increasing Human Creativity by Empirical Measure of
5 Fold With Just 30 Minutes of Meditative Flow, 3 Times A Week….
Yet Imagine What A Person Could Do Staying In A State of ‘Prana’
Always Now; By The Day i Pass away, the Results will All be in Hehe…:)
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Please stop poeting on my comments here😅
And start poeting on my posts on my blog!!
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Haha Might
Just get
Around
to doing That🙌😊
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Aaahh!! Finally, you wrote only 8 words!!!!!
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Hehe i Literally
Read 20 Times
Faster Than the
Average Human
Now And Also
Type up To 130
Words Per Minute
When in Focus of
Flow
Yes
Putting
The Breaks
On 8 Words
Like Screeching
Tires to A Stop
As A Ferrari For Me HAha…
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Awaiting your thoughts on my blog!!
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Hehe i’m in Florida
It’s 4:11 AM
Will
Check it
Out Later
Have A Nice
Day Stay Safe in India😊
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Stay safe!
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😊🙌
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I’ve never tried it. You’ve spurred my interest. 😃❤️
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Wow!!! I’m glad I did.. do try it some time ❤️
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To be honest I don’t like LinkedIn. It never served the purpose for me i.e. finding job opportunities and I think Naukri is way better than LinkedIn in this case. Another reason is the hypocrisy and marketing done by company’s high level people. There is too much positivity and kindness flowing in there and sometimes I find it hard to believe because reality I have experienced is far from the picture on LinkedIn.
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Okayy… Actually it’s difficult for me to connect with people from my field on other platforms.. that’s the reason maybe I enjoy it so much. I also get reminders for useful webinars n all.. yes there is too much positivity sometimes… But I feel it’s like necessary.. at least somewhere there is positivity in business world.. there are too many negative news everywhere so… That’s why. But thank you for sharing your perspective Pratik! Its really good to hear from you after a long time. 🙂
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